Complete Definition of "gewgawed"

English
Etymology
From gewgaw.

Pronunciation
IPA|/�gju:g�:d/

Adjective
en-adj

  1. Covered in or decorated with gewgaws.

#:*1972: The inside walls would be beautifully painted and hung with tapestries, and every cross-timber or falcon's perch was carved and gewgawed with toads, snakes, dragon shapes, deer, cows, pigs, trees, trolls. � John Gardner, Grendel (London 1972, p. 31)

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